How to Jump Off a Curb With a Skateboard

Any street skater needs to know how to jump off a curb on his skateboard. This should be a pretty easy feat, as long as you already know how to ollie. And once you perfect jumping off a curb on your skateboard, you'll be ready to learn how to jump up onto a curb.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Learn how to do an ollie first by referring to the eHow article, "How to Do an Ollie on a Skateboard." This trick involves jumping up in the air with the board still under your feet. Practice this basic trick until you can do it easily.

2. Perfect your "acid drop," a variation of the ollie where the front of your board is higher in the air than the back. To do this, get moving on your board, then ollie, but pull your front knee up farther than your back one to pull the nose of the board up higher than the tail.

3. Head toward a small curb of your sidewalk or driveway. Bend your knees as you approach the curb, then as you reach the edge, jump up to do an "acid drop" off the curb. As you come off the curb, bring the nose of the board back down level with the tail so you land on all four wheels, then skate away.

4. Work up from smaller curbs to larger curbs and even gaps, a space between two curbs. The more you practice, the easier curbs will be for you.

Tips & Warnings

• Once you have gotten down the skill of jumping off a curb, you are ready to jump a little higher using the same movements in Steps 2 and 3 to jump up a curb from a street or parking lot onto a sidewalk.
• Always wear protective gear--helmet and pads--when street skating.

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Resources

• eHow article on an ollie

[a-bomb]

on 7/16/2008 yea

[jojoSkates2]

on 6/19/2008 thanks, be cause i get scared to ollie off things and up.